StoryCorps, the nation’s largest oral history project, and Affinity Community Services, which has been doing social justice work in Chicago’s black LGBTQ community for 20 years, are teaming up! Join us for an inter-generational evening of listening and sharing stories from Chicago’s black LGBTQ community.
Kai M. Green will be our MC for the event. Kai is a writer, scholar, poet, filmmaker, abolitionist, feminist and whatever else it takes to make a way towards a new and more just world. ...
StoryCorps, the nation’s largest oral history project, and Affinity Community Services, which has been doing social justice work in Chicago’s black LGBTQ community for 20 years, are teaming up! Join us for an inter-generational evening of listening and sharing stories from Chicago’s black LGBTQ community.
Kai M. Green will be our MC for the event. Kai is a writer, scholar, poet, filmmaker, abolitionist, feminist and whatever else it takes to make a way towards a new and more just world. He examines questions of gendered and racialized violence in his art and scholarship. For the past six years, he lived in Los Angeles building locally with Black LGBT communities, while also working to complete his dissertation, “Into the Darkness: A Black Queer (Re)Membering of Los Angeles in a Time of Crises.” Through writing and organizing Kai has become a strong, visible voice in the Black Trans community and in the LGBT community generally. Kai is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern.
Light refreshments will be served. RSVP required. For accessibility needs or to RSVP, please contact Chicago@StoryCorps.org
Thursday February 26
6-8pm
Chicago Urban League
4510 South Michigan
StoryCorps Griot is an initiative to ensure that the voices, experiences, and life stories of African Americans will be preserved and presented with dignity.
StoryCorps OutLoud is a multi-year initiative dedicated to recording and preserving LGBTQ stories across America. OutLoud will honor the stories of those who lived before the 1969 Stonewall uprisings, celebrate the lives of LGBTQ youth, and amplify the voices of those most often excluded from the historical record.
